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Epilepsy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure), (2) etiology (e.g., post-traumatic), (3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure), (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns (e.g., nocturnal epilepsy).,Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4350 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.11558, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11558
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and reports relating to male fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged35at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11588, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11588
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: attacks of altered consciousness; epilepsy; anxiety attacks; and mastoid infection. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11598, 1952-1956

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11598
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; headache; papilloedema; thrombosis; and meningioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1956

PR2.11600, 1952-1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11600
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; epilepsy; headache; irritability; premature birth; and birth injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1953

PR2.11601, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11601
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, handwritten notes, and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; epilepsy; headache; excessive drinking of alcohol; altered memory and personality; and post-concussional syndrome. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11606, 1951-1965

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11606
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, handwritten notes, charts, reports and correspondance relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: headache; hemiplegia; confusion; aneurysm; intracranial haemorrhage; cerebral vascular disease; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1965

PR2.11622, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11622
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: shrapnel wound to head; right-sided paralysis; seizures; and post-traumatic epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11623, 1952-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11623
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: unconciousness; headache; amnesia; altered conciousness with opisthotonic convulsions; negativistic behaviour; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1954

PR2.11633, 1952-1956

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11633
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, note, charts and correspondence relating to male patient fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged39at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; leg pain; spinal injury; and foot pain. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1956

PR2.11647, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11647
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 25 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attacks. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952